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In this guide I’ll be removing and replacing the LCD screen and removing the inverter board from a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.
As you see on the picture above I’m fixing a HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop with a bad LCD screen. The lower part of the screen displays garbled image and the upper part works just fine. An external monitor displays image properly. So it’s bad screen and it has to be replaced.
By the way, you’ll find another disassembly guide for the same laptop in my previous post.
STEP 1.
There are six rubber screw covers on the LCD screen bezel. You’ll have to remove all covers.
You can remove covers with a sharp object.
STEP 2.
Remove six screws found under the rubber covers.
STEP 3.
Insert fingers between the screen bezel and display cover and start separating them.
Continue removing the bezel. Be careful, the bezel made of fragile plastic.
The screen bezel has been removed.
STEP 4.
Now you can get an access to the screen inverter which is mounted below the screen.
Remove one screw securing the inverter board. Disconnect cables on both sides of the inverter board.
The inverter board has been removed.
STEP 5.
Remove two screws securing each display hinge/bracket.
STEP 6.
Now you can get an access to the back side of the LCD screen. Remove clear tape covering the connector and disconnect the screen cable from the LCD screen. Simply unplug the cable from the connector.
STEP 7.
Remove two screws from each side of the screen. These screws securing the display hinges/brackets to the screen.
STEP 8.
Now you can remove the defective LCD screen and replace it with a new one. You can find a new LCD screen for HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop here for less than $80.
The LCD screen has been removed.
The following part numbers for HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptops could be helpful to you. I found them in the official maintenance and service guide.
15.4-inch, WXGA, SVA display panel with BrightView (Glossy) 431386-001
15.4-inch, WXGA, SVA display panel AntiGlare (Matte) 431387-001
LCD screen inverter 431391-001
UPDATE: In one of the next guides I explain how to completely disassemble HP Pavilion dv6500, dv6600, dv6700, dv6800 notebooks. It should be similar for HP Pavilion dv6000.
If your laptop has no video at all, it could be the video chip failure. Take a look at this video tutorial explaining how to fix failed video chip.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hi,
I also have a hp dv6000 and 2 days ago, I returned to my laptop to find the screen very dim, barely able to make out what is on the screen. The screen displays its normal brightness briefly on reboot, and then dims again. I hooked it up to an external monitor and it does the same thing; just shortly after the Windows logo, the external monitor goes into powersave mode.
I purchased an inverter board to see if that was the culprit; however that did not work either. I wonder if this problem is really the screen or the video card. How would I test further to figure out what the source problem is?
BTW, I followed your instructions on how to disassemble the screen and they were great-thanks!
February 15th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I was so apprehensive about replacing my broken screen on my dv6426us.. all the other instructions I found were not for my model and too vague!! But this page along with the pictures helped me to do it!!! I can not thank you enough for this page!! God Bless you!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Just got it. I think that the lid switch might be magnetic and the antenna (?) was in the wrong place. I’m really not sure, but it now works.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am
ryan,
I understand that the old screen is cracked but most likely you still can see the image on a part of the screen. Try installing the old cracked screen back in place. Will it fail the same way as your new screen? If the cracked screen works properly, apparently you received a defective LCD screen and have to replace.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:46 am
I just broke my screen on a dv2000. The screen cracked and all else was fine. I purchased a new lcd screen, proper model, etc. however, after replacing it, I find that it only works after adjusting the position. If I hold the screen (wuthout the bezel) then the screen works fine in various degrees of being open (as I set the screen to do nothing if closed). So, I’m sure there is just an adjustment, but I’ve removed/replaced now 3 times and it’s the same.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I tried torqueing the screen it made no changes. It did not get better or worse.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
mitchell,
I guess it’s not a problem with the motherboard/video card.
Unfortunately, you don’t have a lot of options. From your description I can assume that it can be either a bad LCD or video cable and at this point you’ll have to guess.
Can you torque the screen a little bit and get the video back to normal?
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Thanks for your help. I did try it on another monitor before buying a LCD and yes it works fine. That is why I decided it was the screen. I was able to have my video card replaced 1 year ago for a totally different problem so I hope that HP did something right. I do have brightness to my screen so it is good to know that my inverter is working. How can I test to see if it is the video cable? This is an awesome site thanks again.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
mitchell,
Before buying a new screen you should have tested your laptop with an external monitor and find out if the same problem appears on the external video.
1. If the problem appears only on the laptop screen, but external works fine, you might have a problem with the LCD screen or video cable.
2. If the same problem appears on the laptop LCD screen AND external monitor, there is something wrong with the video card and replacing the screen will not fix it. You’ll have to replace the video card which most likely is a part of the motherboard, so you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
You can see the distortion on the screen and it’s bright, right? It means the backlight works fine and there is nothing wrong with the inverter. When inverter fails, the screen goes completely dark and the image becomes very faint, but from your description your screen lights up, so the inverter is good.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Andre,
The other end of the cable is attached to the motherboard under the keyboard bezel. I explained how to remove the bezel in one of the previous post and linked to it at the beginning of the post.
You can search for the cable part number in the official maintenance and service manual for Pavilion dv6000 laptops and then google the part number.